Re: [PATCH V2] block/bio-integrity: fix mismatched alloc free

From: PanBian
Date: Mon Aug 19 2019 - 00:14:49 EST


On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:56:14AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 08:59:13AM +0800, Pan Bian wrote:
> > The function kmalloc rather than mempool_alloc is called to allocate
> > memory when the memory pool is unavailable. However, mempool_alloc is
> > used to release the memory chunck in both cases when error occurs. This
> > patch fixes the bug.
> >
> > Fixes: 9f060e2231c ("block: Convert integrity to bvec_alloc_bs()")
> > Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > V2: add Fixes and CC tags
> > ---
> > block/bio-integrity.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/block/bio-integrity.c b/block/bio-integrity.c
> > index fb95dbb..011dfc8 100644
> > --- a/block/bio-integrity.c
> > +++ b/block/bio-integrity.c
> > @@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ struct bio_integrity_payload *bio_integrity_alloc(struct bio *bio,
> >
> > return bip;
> > err:
> > - mempool_free(bip, &bs->bio_integrity_pool);
> > + if (!bs || !mempool_initialized(&bs->bio_integrity_pool))
> > + kfree(bip);
> > + else
> > + mempool_free(bip, &bs->bio_integrity_pool);
> > return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_integrity_alloc);
>
> 'err' is still reached in case that 'bs' is valid, so fix nothing.

You are right! It's my fault.

Thanks,
Pan

>
>
> Thanks,
> Ming